Poppy Twigger from Liverpool works as a civil engineer by day. But at night, she spends hours handmaking amazing cosplay costumes. She’s been to Comic Con as Thor in the past but this time she came as Valkyrie from Pikachu.

“It took me around two weeks to make this costume,” she said.

Maria Gray transformed a pink jacket into an amazing Penelope Pitstop costume – complete with a skirt that flareed when she twirled!

“I painted the helmet myself,” said Maria, from Wolverhampton. “I was up until midnight last night attaching my skirt.”

Thomas Skelding got dressed up as Vegeta from the Japanese manga series Dragon Ball and Liam Smith came as the Cheshire Cat in a full body outfit that must have made him extremely hot.

“I like making people smile,” said Liam, from Brierley Hill.

Hannah Waring had made her Okami costume Amaterasu from scratch. “I ended up hand-sewing it because my sewing machine broke,” said Hannah from Stoke on Trent.

Rochelle Parnell came as Undyne from the Undertale game. “It took me two hours this morning to paint on all this blue paint,” said Rochelle, from Birmingham. “I used orange nets to get the fish scales pattern.”